Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him’ #usnews

Truck plows into Los Angeles rally to support Iran demonstrations, KNBC reports reut.rs/49sGpkH

We are all Beth Israel today… nombed by the KKK in 1967 and targeted this weekend again. jewishinsider.com/2026/01/jack...

Damn!

Israel is currently holding over 11,000 Palestinians in detention, most of whom have never been convicted of a crime. The US currently is detaining about 500,000 (that's half a million) people who've never been convicted of a crime *not* including military detention or immigration detention.

The leading cause of death among ICE officers? COVID-19.

Things are grim right now but as a reminder of who we are and why we fight, this is the US Women’s figuring skating champion.

"There’s a lack of data on how many American Indian or Alaska Native people have been stopped, questioned or detained by ICE." @ameliaschafer.bsky.social ictnews.org/news/five-na...

Iran protesters tell of brutal police response as regime lashes out

I hope that those who organized to make this happen have taken at least one day to celebrate what they made possible.

Plus: Iran shuts down its internet amid sweeping protests, an alleged scam boss gets extradited to China, and more. www.wired.com/story/securi...

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Iran’s internet shutdown is strikingly sophisticated and may last some time

To be Iranian is to lose or get cut off from your family for no good reason at all! Is to get banned from seeing your family, celebrating or grieving with them، on whatever random basis that a bunch of old angry octogenarians decide is the "right thing to do". Everyone gets to decide but us.

There are only three possible outcomes for undocumented immigrants in this country: mass deportation, amnesty, or legal limbo (i.e., status quo for last 40 years). The first causes violence in communities and harassment of citizens. The third quietly ruins people's lives, as opportunities pass them.

“If your life has always felt like it was in chaos & you don’t feel comfortable & you don’t feel like you thrive & you feel like you’re constantly surviving & going from one thing to the next—what you got to lose?” @supernovaparenting.org on autism diagnoses: www.the-independent.com/life-style/h...

Congress released reconciled versions of three appropriations bills that will set funding levels for key federal science agencies. Despite minor cuts, Senate Appropriations Committee chair Susan Collins (R-ME) says the bills will “spur scientific research.” cen.acs.org/policy/resea... #chemsky 🧪

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Harvard has removed a resident dean -- a Black lecturer in psychology -- for writing posts critical of Trump and law enforcement www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

This video, viewed millions of times on TikTok, Facebook and X, claims to show Venezuelans taking to the street to thank the US for detaining Maduro. But the video is a combination of four AI-generated clips and was first posted on TikTok by a user who frequently shares AI videos. It's not real.

As a graduate of HKS last year, I saw my fellow students stop engaging in anything political because of fear of doxing or being rounded up by ICE. I never saw students fearful of disagreeing with a professor on a controversial issue. I usually saw faculty bend over backwards to appear neutral.

Tara Roberts is a Black Woman Scuba Diver who works for National Geographic that goes deep into the ocean in search of lost slave ships.

Former special counsel Jack Smith also described President Trump as the "most culpable and most responsible person" in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results, according to a transcript of Smith's closed-door interview with the House Judiciary Committee. n.pr/49cmd6E

You probably heard the US admin is threatening to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research: but did you know they already froze funding for the 9 regional Climate Science Adaptation Centers? From tracking invasives to helping tribes with drought, here's why the CASCs matter ⬇️

This concern is appreciated and warranted, but to clarify: 3 out of 9 regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers have had their funding frozen (DOI won’t approve their 5-year renewals). 6 regional CASCs are still (mostly) funded. We haven’t given up on restoring funding for the full network.

“An AI scientist, for example, could figure out how the human brain works, or deliver any gene to any cell in the body.” Yeah and a magic pony could shit bricks of 24k gold and piss a highly concentrated solution of pure heroin.

Julie K. Brown is a reporter for the Miami Herald who did groundbreaking work on Epstein beginning in 2018, including groundbreaking work on the disgusting coverup by Alex Acosta. Her travel itinerary was released with some of the Epstein files. It appears the DOJ was monitoring her in 2019.

Ah shit, someone figured it out. [flees country]

shel silverstein was a prophet

I was thinking about what gifts people used to give to readers (besides gift editions of famous poets' work and illustrated histories of wars and such), and while I was thinking about it, somebody brought a book to the counter.... (1/10)

I *know* I shouldn’t share the NYPost but I got served this BUTT PHRENOLOGY article !!!! And people should know that we have entered the era of BUTT PHRENOLOGY !!!!

Told @AJEnglish Israel's push for more US war w/ Iran directly contradicts Trump's NSS, which says US focus on the region "will recede." “Well, then, recede,” Parsi said “If they don’t want Israel to start that war, tell Israel, ‘Don’t start that war'" www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

concentration camps.

Efficiency ftw Spend more do less

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

Also, shout out to the students at Cal who were willing to go on camera and debunk the Administration's narrative, which is something a lot more powerful and well-known people refuse to do.

Not enough young men are getting vaccinated against HPV, and it's undermining the elimination of cervical cancer. If more boys receive the vaccine it will save numerous lives from HPV-associated cancers, including cervical, anal, penile & oral cancers. www.sciencealert.com/vaccinating-...

I don't like to share this, but I'm most likely descended from a signer of the Declaration... as are thousands of Black Americans. (It wasn't just Jefferson, most unfortunately.) Black Americans don't count as American to MAGA unless we parrot their rhetoric. (And really, not even if we sell out.)

Trans youth healthcare is based in decades of research and supported by every major medical organization in the US. Under RFK Jr, a handpicked panel produced a dodgy report claiming otherwise. It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?

"I know they killed him" Lucía Pedro Juan was detained with her husband, Francisco Gaspar Cristóbal Andrés, on Sept. 1. She was held for almost 3 months in Camp East Montana. She was deported to Guatemala. Her husband died on Dec. 3. I traveled to speak with her for the El Paso Times.

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Me: Opens up new journal article about how AI extracts racial data from digital pathology slides and then is biased and racist Popup on the page of scientific journal that published this study: "Ask ScienceDirect AI: What is your research question? Research faster with ScienceDirect AI!"

Great work from @chrisgeidner.bsky.social on @lawdorknews.bsky.social here: open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

You know who else died of a medical emergency in a detention center? Anne Frank

For years, @ewcspottesmith.bsky.social had their career mapped out. They wanted to be a professor and planned on a faculty career in the US. Now they’ve left the US entirely, to take up a position at University College Dublin (UCD). cen.acs.org/careers/empl... #chemsky 🧪

Canada is launching a new funding program for PhD students and postdoctoral scientists. Reach out to me if you are interested in studying gene regulation, RNA splicing and/or cancer immunotherapy using computational and/or experimental approaches. #PhD #Postdoc